GGR107H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Economic Globalization
11 May 2018
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Professor Sarah Wakefield Nov. 4, 2016
GGR107 LECTURE 8
VEGETABLES (& FRUIT)
LECTURE OUTLINE:
• Explore issues in the DISTRIBUTION of PERISHABLE FOODS (including GMO’s)
• Examine food PACKAGING, MARKETING, RETAIL
• Investigate LABOUR in fruit and vegetable farming, in Canada and abroad
WHAT IS A GMO?
CSAWP
“What started off as a couple of hundred workers has since grown to more than 15,000. They
help harvest fruits and vegetables or work in tobacco as well as greenhouses and nurseries.
Despite a number of controversies — the program has been accused of exploiting workers as
well as taking jobs away from unemployed Canadians — there is no sign it is shrinking…”
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Document Summary
Lecture outline: explore issues in the distribution of perishable foods (including gmo"s, examine food packaging, marketing, retail. Investigate labour in fruit and vegetable farming, in canada and abroad. What started off as a couple of hundred workers has since grown to more than 15,000. They help harvest fruits and vegetables or work in tobacco as well as greenhouses and nurseries. Despite a number of controversies the program has been accused of exploiting workers as well as taking jobs away from unemployed canadians there is no sign it is shrinking . Friedberg: power is being exerted in new ways through old, and formerly colonial relationships between global north and south , there are multiple struggles to define where goodness lies in food. Although often framed as a geographic, ecological, or technical question should the food supply be global or localized, produced organically or scientifically it is fundamentally a social one.
